Name: Political Vanity : Adam Ferguson On The Moral Tensions Of Early Capitalism
SKU: 9781451482751
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Political Vanity : Adam Ferguson On The Moral Tensions Of Early Capitalism

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Introduction
1. Ferguson’s Political Theology
2. The Meaning Of History
3. Action And Human Nature
4. The Peril Of Commercial Society
5. Trappings Of Liberal Democratic Capitalism

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Political Vanity aims to illuminate the central debates over the historical, moral, and political legitimacy of market capitalism by engaging central theorists of the Scottish Enlightenment, in particular the philosopher and sociologist Adam Ferguson. Ferguson was a contemporary of philosophers and economists David Hume and Adam Smith, and actively questioned many of the pillars of early capitalism on theological grounds. Namely:

* conjectural histories used to justify economic liberalization

* reduction of human action to production and consumption

* the inevitable tendency of capitalist power to undermine political institutions

Ferguson argued that far from equalizing and liberating, the unfettered market left to its own devices takes the form of despot, enslaving civil society in bonds of its own making. His ideas continue to have theological, philosophical, and ethical relevance today.

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SKU (ISBN): 9781451482751
ISBN10: 1451482752
Matthew Arbo
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: June 2014
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers – 1517 Media

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